Mike, thank you for your clarifying question. The second approach refers
to situational variables that seem to have a stable, predictable effect on
youth roles and levels of responsibility regardless of when they happened
across a 2 year timescale. For example, across a 2 year time period, when
youth-authored documents were being readied for an external audience, adult
educators tended to assert more editorial control (than when the documents
were just for an internal audience). Or, using another example, in
situations where youth monetary stipends were being discussed, youth and
adults tended to slip into more typical "employee-employer" kinds of social
interactions.
All this is to say, in some meaningful ways the distribution of roles and
authority in the group changed (developmental approach). And in other
ways, certain patterns of interaction remained stable across time. Perhaps
I'm looking for something complicated when that's all it is. But somehow I
suspect that there is a way of presenting these two levels of analysis in
relation to each other, with more theoretical clarity.
Thank you,
Ben
At 12:48 PM 10/16/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Ben-- What sorts of indicators of changes in social interaction over time
>in systematic and predictable ways do you see? Roles, levels of
>responsibility are indicators in the first case, but what about the
>second?
>
> Something seems askew in the two examples which make them seem
>incommensurate in ways that are not reducible to synchronic-diachronic.
>mike
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